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Before the World War 3 

During the War 5 

The Peace Conference 8 

The Effects of the Peace Treaty 11 

Mandates 14 

Reparations 19 

The U. S. A. in Trap 22 

The U. S. A. and the World Peace 26 



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Before the World War 

Before the World War a good many preached brother- 
hood and quite a few practiced it. In Pre- War times patri- 
otism was more pure and less commercialized. There were 
more idealists and fewer hypocrites. The pulpit was more 
spiritual and less materialistic. The Daily Press was to a 
great extent more progressive and far less reactionary. 
Without a doubt during those days Nationalism was purer 
and Internationalism was above class idea. There was less 
darkness and more light. There was less fear and more 
courage. Destructive ideas were weak and constructive 
forces were stronger. Greed was less known and gener- 
osity was more prevalent. 

In Pre- War time there was more freedom of speech, 
press, of individual action, habit and thought. During those 
few years many persons did their best to find out the good 
in their fellowmen. Even the Nations wanted and did learn 
some good from other Nations. The Religionists showed 
more tolerance towards the other religions and racial ani- 
mosity was not as strong as it is today. In those somewhat 
happy old days, the world did not have the powerful and 
ever growing armies of the antis, namely the anti- Americans 
in Europe and in the English speaking countries elsewhere. 
The anti-Slavs, the anti-Germans, the anti-French, the anti- 
Orientals in England, America, Canada and Australia ; the 
anti-Semites in Europe and America, and anti this and anti 
that, and last but not least the grand army of the anti-Eng- 
lish. If the W r orld War has not given us much, then it has at 
least given us, Hate as our religion, the cult of ''Anti" as our 
creed, and Distrust as our Sermon on the Mount. 

Before the War we read Th. Mommsen, Fr. Passy, B. 
Bjornson, H. Sienkiewicz, Baroness von Suttner, R. Eucken, 
G. Hauptmann, R. Tagore, R. Rolland, G. Brandes, A. 
France, L. Tolstoi, and others, and not the works of war 
mongers and the blood profiteers. Generally speaking, there 
was more joy and less sorrow, more peace and less unrest. 
Neither the poverty of the most poor was so great, nor the 



wealth of the rich so immense. Before the war India was 
the hell of the poor and purgatory of the hungry ; and now 
the Nations of Central Europe are running a neck-to-neck 
race to share honors in poverty and hunger with India. In 
those days quite a few people understood the distinction 
between Justice and Injustice. That was the time when 
some of us said to our dear friends at the table, "Help your- 
selves," but now Lloyd George says to the imperialists of 
other Nations : "Help yourselves — after John Bull, in the 
names of mandates and reparations.'' Before the war, we 
used to hear that the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, but for the 
last four or five years, we have found out that it is the im- 
perialistic Europe which loveth the cheerful Uncle Sam — as 
long as he giveth. In the course of a short time the world 
is changed to such an extent that even the Alfred B. Nobel 
Peace prize went to the foremost figure of the World War. 
Who knows if the Rev. B. Sunday will not be awarded all 
the Nobel prizes before long? 

Before the World War Germany, Austria-Hungary, 
Turkey, Russia and Bulgaria were larger in area. The 
losses of those Nations became the gains of the allies. Since 
the World War, Siam, Persia, Afghanistan and the inde- 
pendent vStates of Arabia have fallen under the political 
sway of John Bull. Before the war there were eight great 
powers and now there are only four. Previous to that hell- 
ish war, there were five mighty colonial powers, now there 
are only two. 



During the War 



"Freedom" and "Democracy" were the war slogans. 
Without a doubt those are magical words. There were over 
900,000,000 of oppressed people under the Belgian, British, 
French, Italian, Japanese, Portugese and ,Russian flags at the 
time when the World War broke out. If the Governments, the 
political and religious leaders of those countries were truly 
freedom-loving and honest champions of freedom and de- 
mocracy, then why did they not give freedom to those Na- 
tions of which the Allies were oppressors? Almost a bil- 
lion people on all continents were held in political and eco- 
nomic bondage by the leading European Nations. In spite 
of that fact the Allies had the audacity to call their imperial- 
istic war "a cause of freedom and democracy." The Peace 
Treaty, the League of Nations and the mandates have 
proven that the Allies fought for imperialistic gains and in 
order to dominate the world by themselves. 

Individual thieves who steal from individuals, when 
caught, are sent to jail, provided they have no political 
friends, but those who rob the political independence of other 
Nations are called "great heroes" and "wonderful states- 
men." A single glance of the map of the world will con- 
vince any man or woman that one European country is the 
political and economic master of more than one-third of the 
world. Can a small country of Europe, which is smaller in 
size than the second-rate countries of that continent, rule 
one-third of the whole world and call itself a lover of free- 
dom and democracy? Can a freedom-loving Nation rob 
the political, national and economic freedom of one-third of 
the entire world? Can a Nation, which autocratically and 
tyrannically rules nearly half the population of the world, 
be a democratic Nation? 

While the killing was going on, in the name of Freedom 
and Democracy, England put Egypt under her flag, and 
France put Morocco under hers, but the Egyptians who ob- 
jected to be under the British flag were killed in the name of 
British freedom and democracy and the same was the lot of 



the patriots of Morocco, under the French flag. At the 
time England, France and Russia were fighting for De- 
mocracy very few politicians, and the so-called statesmen of 
other Nations realized the size of the maps of the British, 
French and Russian colonial empires. In the year 1914, the 
British in Europe had one hundred twenty-one thousand 
five hundred square miles, but the British Colonial Empire 
comprised more than 14,000,000 square miles. France, 
proper, is in Europe 207,000 square miles, but her Colonial 
Empire was of almost 5,000,000 square miles. Russia, 
proper, in Europe, contained 1,800,000 square miles, but she 
had more than 7,000,000 square miles of the non-Russian 
world, nearly all of it in Asia. In other words, more than 
half the known world was under the flags of England, France 
and Russia, and yet the Governments and leaders of those 
countries talked of World Freedom and Democracy — what 
a mockery and hypocrisy ! 

One colonial power, namely Holland, remained neutral 
for purely business reasons. Of the four Nations, that is 
to say, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, 
Germany alone was a great colonial power, otherwise all the 
great colonial powers were on the other side. All the coun- 
tries, which have colonies in Asia or Africa, with the excep- 
tion of the U. S. A., have vastly enlarged their colonial em- 
pires as a result of the defeat of the Central Powers, and 
the downfall of Russia. Through the help of Poles and 
Polish-Americans, through the help of Bohemians and Bo- 
hemian-Americans, through the help of Rumanians and 
Greeks, the European masters of Asia and Africa, first 
weakened and then ruined Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bul- 
garia and Turkey. Later on, in a short time the great Ger- 
man Colonial Empire and the vast Asiatic Turkey were 
swallowed up by the imperialists of Europe. While the 
ignorant world was fed on "freedom" and "democracy." 
More parts of the world and many millions of human beings 
were added to the vast colonial empires of England, France, 
Belgium and Italy. During the war, there were three prob- 
lems in the minds of the Allies, First: How to get what 



they wanted. Second: How to fool the world in order to 
hide their intended crimes of the divisions of German, Rus- 
sian and Turkish colonies and empires. Third: How to 
involve into the war the non-European Nations. The cun- 
ning imperialist solved those problems in five short words : 
''War for Freedom and Democracy." The rest was easy 
for the hired army of propagandists. 

During the war, the stronger, the more cunning and 
more crooked of the Allies studied the map of all continents, 
the natural resources and markets of the world; and also 
the national weakness, religious prejudice and racial an- 
tipathy of all nations, religions and races. The imperialists 
also let loose an army of vampires to increase hate, jeal- 
ousy and distrust, while the Allies were talking of freedom 
and democracy. During those days the same Allies were lay- 
ing out plans to oppress others and increase the size of their 
colonial empires. During that same war, the imperialist 
laid the foundations of a number of wars, among those who 
helped them to win their war. Also the European imperial- 
ists perfected the means of defence of their colonial empires 
during the very time the non-Europeans were helping them 
to win the war for the Allies on the soil of Europe. While 
Americans were helping the Allies to win the war, the same 
Allies were putting plans in force to exclude Americans 
from the markets of the world. During that same war, the 
Allies evolved, and somewhat perfected a machine, now 
known as the League of Nations, better known in India as 
a League of Bandits. 



The Peace Conference 

Three gentlemen took upon themselves the task of mak- 
ing Peace. None of those three gentlemen is known as a 
great traveler. All of them are poor linguists, with no sym- 
pathies towards the oppressed. The Prime Ministers of 
England and France were there with definite plans, namely, 
to increase the size of the British Empire, and that of 
France in Europe, in Asia and Africa. The Allies won their 
first diplomatic victory when the head of the American Na- 
tion sat with the second heads of the British Empire and 
the French Republic. The King of England is the head of 
the British Empire and not the Prime Minister, and so is the 
President of France, and not the Prime Minister, the head of 
that Republic. Therefore, when the head of the mighty U. S. 
A. sat side by side with the second heads of England and 
France, then the arrogance, greed and cunningness of Eng- 
land and France became openly feasible. The Prime Min- 
isters, after having convinced themselves, and the rest of 
the world, that the second heads of England and France 
were equal in prestige and standing to the head of the most 
powerful ,Republic and richest Nation in the world, it be- 
came an easy task for the Allies to do as they pleased. 

It was not a Peace Conference, it was an imperialistic 
victors' conference. The supposed Peace Conference met 
to tear the world into pieces to suit its own case. There 
was not a single man at the conference whose heart was 
beating for suffering humanity. India, Ireland and Egypt, 
the three most tyrannically ruled countries, were absolutely 
unknown to the leaders of the Peace Conference. The gen- 
tlemen of that conference did not fullfil a single pledge given 
to their own people. The Peace Conference was a grand 
success as far as the imperialistic Allies were concerned. 
That Conference by a single diplomatic stroke completely 
ruined the four mighty empires of Europe, and at the same 
time, the same Conference made England the political dicta- 
tor of Europe in addition to Asia and Africa. What else 
could England have desired? The prolonged Peace Confer- 



ence has prolonged the life of Imperialism and greatly 
strengthened the power of the British and French Colonial 
Empires. Some say that it was not a Peace Conference, 
but it was a private gathering of the imperialists. 

The Peace Conference and Treaty have not only secured 
the safety, but also greatly enlarged the British Empire and 
its power. That same Conference made the Baltic Sea private 
property of the British ship owners. The disappearance of 
Germany and Austria as trading powers has enormously 
strengthened the British Traders in all parts of the world. 
The downfall of the Czarist Russia and the annihilation of 
Turkey, has made England the master of more than three- 
fourths of inhabited Asia. The Peace Treaty has cre- 
ated two new empires within the British Empire, namely 
Australia and the Union of South Africa, for the simple rea- 
son that some of the leading German colonies were given to 
Australia and the Union of South Africa. Through that 
masterly act those colonies have become more loyal to Eng- 
land than ever before. The same Peace Conference gave to 
England Mesopotamia, Palestine, Persia, Afghanistan, and 
other parts of Asia. 

The Peace Treaty thus has made the British Empire the 
Mother of Empires, henceforth it should be known as Super- 
Empire or the World Empire. From the military, naval, 
air, political and economic standpoints, this Super-Empire 
cannot be destroyed, as far as the present war science is con- 
cerned. The same Peace Treaty has left doors wide open 
for at least nine wars ; first, a war between Russia and Po- 
land ; second, between Russia and Rumania ; third, between 
France and Germany ; fourth, between Poland and Ger- 
many ; fifth, between Italy and Jugo-Slavia ; sixth, between 
Italy and Greece; seventh, between Rumania and Hun- 
gary ; eighth, between China and Japan ; ninth, between the 
U. S. A. and Japan. In none of those nine wars England 
will be directly involved, unless she desires to enlarge her 
Super-Empire. Ninety-nine percent of the pro-English 
Americans are anti-Japanese, and of the anti-Japanese 
Americans eighty percent are pro-English. England is well 



aware of these facts, hence she does not expect a war with 
the U. S. A., at least for some time. The war between the 
U. S. A. and Japan will be largely a naval war, and perhaps 
a prolonged one. During that war both the U. S. A. and 
Japan will not be able to carry on their foreign trade. Mil- 
lions of American workers will be engaged in war-industries 
only. By the time Japan is defeated, the U. S. A. will have 
lost most of her foreign trade ; and by the disappearance of 
Japan as a great power in Asia, the whole of Asia will be the 
private property of England. The Peace Conference should 
have been held in Washington, D. C, but when it was de- 
cided that the Peace Conference was to be held in Europe 
then it was a certain thing that the blood-stained war was 
to have a blood-stained peace. What else can one expect of 
imperialistic Europe? 



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The Effect of the Peace Treaty 

The Peace Treaty has been a total disappointment to the 
oppressed. It is unjust to Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bul- 
garia, Russia and Turkey. That Treaty has enlarged the 
British Super-Empire. As the result of that Treaty France 
has enlarged her possessions on European, Asian and Afri- 
can continents. Belgium, Greece and Italy have enlarged 
their possessions on two continents. Poland, Czecho-Slo- 
vakia, Rumania and Jugo-Slavia are fattened to death and 
are kept as pawns by the imperialists of Europe for the fu- 
ture wars. From the political standpoint of England, France 
and Italy, the Treaty is a grand success, but from the eco- 
nomic standpoint, England is the only gainer and more than 
three-fourths of Europe is loser. The Treaty makes Europe 
nominally free, but economically dependent on John Bull 
and John Bull only. 

The German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Turkish 
Empires are gone, and Poland, Rumania, Italy, Jugo-Slavia 
and Greece are newly born empires under different names. 
These five newly created empires are the tail of the British 
Lion and they are the sword of France for future use. The 
Peace Treaty has painted the map of Europe with many col- 
ors and too many dots. But the Treaty was written by two 
men in the interest of two nations, namely, France and 
England. France wanted political friends, and England 
wanted to establish commercial dictatorship over the whole 
of Europe. The Slavs and the Latins are the majority of 
the inhabitants of Europe. Neither the Slavs, nor the Lat- 
ins love the Germans and Turks. Hence the German, Aus- 
trian and Turkish Empires were carved to satisfy the land 
hunger of the Slavs and Latins. In the meanwhile France 
gets all the blame for the unjust division of Europe and 
England escapes from most of the blame. But quietly and 
coolly England has successfully established her commercial 
dictatorship all over Europe. 

The Peace Treaty is a War Trust. The famous men 
who took part in it have become infamous. The whole 

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Treaty is nothing else but injustice, hypocrisy, tyranny and 
cant. The Treaty has established political autocracy and 
economic dictatorship all over Europe, Asia and Africa. 
The Peace Treaty is the British form of Sovietism, French 
Bolshevism and the Communism of the colonial powers. It 
is the world dictatorship by the imperialists. The Treaty 
dooms the political and economic freedom for all except its 
framers. 

The Allies promised a just Treaty to all concerned. 
Lloyd George and Clemenceau made that Treaty wholly just 
to England and France. They also made it just to half a 
dozen other nations and absolutely unjust to the rest of the 
world. The framers of that Treaty are known as the master 
orators, great leaders and famous statesmen. It is true that 
they all are orators, but they are demogogic orators, hence, 
the whole of the Peace Treaty is a demogogic piece of work. 
It is true, too, that the framers of that Treaty are great lead- 
ers, but no imperialist can be a great leader, unless he be a 
mis-leader. The proof of that fact is seen in the Peace 
Treaty itself. Is the Peace Treaty anything else than mis- 
leading? Then, again, the framers of that Treaty are 
known as statesmen. But at present no man can be a states- 
man in imperialistic Europe unless he serves his country at 
the cost of other nations. In fact, the more he ruins other 
nations, the greater statesman he becomes in the eyes of 
those he serves. Therefore, if the Peace Treaty is the work 
of great statesmen, then it means that that Treaty will bring 
untold gains to the nations of those statesmen and a lot of 
suffering to the rest of the world. 

At the time the Treaty was written, a great wave of 
radicalism was sweeping imperialistic Europe, and in suffer- 
ing Asia and Africa the forces of unrest and disregard to 
old institutions were aflame. The honest and God-fearing 
men and women, the suffering and war worn-out workers 
and the lovers of peace in Europe demanded a just and 
lasting peace. Oppressed Asia and Africa went ahead and 
organized powerful political parties in order to gain na- 
tional and continental freedom from imperialistic Europe. 

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'Down with this," and "Down with that," "The end of 
this" and "The end of that," and "Long- live freedom and 
peace," were on the lips of countless millions. These and 
many other facts of similar nature were carefully studied by 
the framers of the Treaty. The imperialists dared not come 
out and reveal their unholy tricks for the sake of saving 
their lives, though they did not for a single moment hesitate 
to take the lives of millions of people. They did not use 
the methods of the previous peace conferences, they wanted 
to play the roles of angels, and when the Treaty was known 
they became the "fallen angels." They did not write a word 
in the Treaties in favor of those whom their Govern- 
ments kept in hellish tyranny. They did not speak of in- 
demnity, nor of annexaations, and not even of the eco- 
nomic plunder of Germany. In the place of indemnity they 
put the word "reparations." In the place of annexations 
they put the word "mandates," and the economic plunder of 
Germany was sugar-coated and replaced with words of "ex- 
port duty" on "German made goods." The Treaty gives the 
mastery of oceans, seas and air to England. The Treaty 
gives all that was desired to its framers. The Treaty makes 
the imperialism of the great powers permanent and dooms 
the oppressed, weak and friendless. 



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Mandates 

Before the World War Germany had a colonial empire 
of 1,134,239 square miles, and a colonial population of fif- 
teen million souls. The foreign trade of those colonies, that 
is, the exports and the imports, amounted to a sum of four 
hundred and fifty million gold marks. The U. S. A. bought 
from Denmark the three small islands of St. Croix, St. 
Thomas and St. John, having a total area of 142 square 
miles, with a population of 32,000, for a sum of twenty-five 
million dollars. The trade of those islands is so small that it 
is not worth mentioning it at all. If the U. S. A. has paid 
such a collossal sum for those three dots, then how much 
worth in money must have been the one-time vast colonial 
empire of Germany? Then again, if the U. S. A. buys the 
British islands on the American continent at the rate she 
has bought from Denmark, there will not be enough money 
in the whole wrold with which she could pay in cash. The 
division of German colonies creates the following news as- 
pects : first, the imperialism of the colony-grabbers is made 
permanent, which means more wars ; second, a great menace 
to American industry and foreign trade, and third, more 
burden upon those who are the victims of the great colonial 
powers of Europe. 

The internal trade of the former German colonies is con- 
siderable. They are rich in natural resources, the potentiali- 
ties of their imports and exports are immense. Those col- 
onies have thousands of miles of the finest railroad systems 
and tens of thousands of miles of telegraph lines, enor- 
mous harbors and many kinds of plantations. One of those 
colonies has enormous deposits of diamonds, and all of those 
colonies have a large number of highly developed factories. 
There are also thousands of office buildings and residential 
homes. The Allies have simply grabbed that enormous and 
highly developed colonial empire of imperial Germany hi 
the name of "MANDATES." During the war the British 
did most of the talking, therefore, during the time the Treaty 
was written, the British did most of the "taking." The 

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British took the largest share of the former German col- 
onies, yet hardly anyone blames them. The British, French, 
Italians and Belgians gave to Japan the least. Yet, in the 
American press Japan gets all the blame. Is it because the 
Japs got Yap? 

For a long time whenever the victors took the posses- 
sions or a part of them from the losers, then to a certain 
extent also went the national debts of the losers with the 
loot, and whenever the victors annexed part of the posses- 
sions of the losers, then there was neither reparations, nor 
heavy export taxes, neither ruinous burdens imposed upon 
the loser. The Allies and their American spokesman sol- 
emnly pledged before the world that there will be a just 
peace, if the Germans will get rid of their Hohenzollern 
masters. The Allies grabbed in the most bandit fashion 
the German colonial empire, the fourth largest colonial em- 
pire in the world, in the name of mandates and then demand 
of Germany an unheard sum of money in the name of repar- 
ations. If Germany must pay indemnity in the form of 
reparation, then why have the AJlies taken the German col- 
onies? The Allies have divided European Germany to suit 
their case, and to please each other they have divided the 
German colonies amongst themselves. Then what moral 
rights have they to make Germany pay fabulous sums of 
money as reparations ? 

There are professors of geography, professors of eco- 
nomics, professors of moral philosophy, enormous armies of 
Christian preachers, there are peace lovers and there are, 
also, supposed to be many liberals. But where are they? 
If they are what they pretend to be, then why are they silent? 
Why is it that they do not use their knowledge in the cause 
of truth, on behalf of justice and, above all, for the sake of 
righteousness? If those men do not know the world, then 
who else would ? During the war insanity had gone mad, but 
now why allow the last vestige of sanity to go insane ! The 
colonial system is so wrong that it cannot stand any argument 
in its favor before the seventh commandment. If Germany was 
morally wrong to have any colonies, then the Allies are even 

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more immoral to divide those colonies amongst themselves. 
At any rate, it is interesting for the non-Christians to watch 
as to how the Christian imperialists of Europe can fool the 
world, and get away with plunder and booty under the name 
of "mandates." If the mandate system is not opposed, at 
least by those churches which send missionaries to foreign 
countries, then it is easy for everyone to find where the anti- 
Christ is. 

The former German colonies are grabbed by the Allies. 
Through the annexation of those colonies the Allies have en- 
riched themselves enormously. Through the loss of those 
colonies, Germany will have a large number of unemployed. 
Through the gain of those colonies, the Allies will find work 
for a large number of men and women in their respective 
countries. By losing those colonies, Germany loses many 
sources of raw materials, and some of the best markets she 
ever had. On the other hand, as a result of having taken 
those colonies, the Allies have greater means of finding raw 
materials and still greater markets to sell their goods. 
Through the loss of those colonies German ship-builders 
and shipping have greatly suffered ; on the other hand, the 
ship-builders and shipping of the Allied countries are ex- 
tremely prosperous. In that way every great loss to Ger- 
many is still a greater gain to the Allies. Greater gain to 
the Allies because the Allies have greatly increased the size 
of their colonies ; the Allies have taken the German navy, 
so that Germany shall not remain any longer a naval power ; 
they have fixed the size of the German army ; they have 
taken away the German ships; they have taken away from 
Germany her best iron and coal mines ; they have taken her 
colonies and they distribute^ German provinces and cities 
to their own advantage, and on the top of that they want 
Germany to pay huge sums of money in the name of repara- 
tions. And still there are people who call the European 
Allies Christian nations! 

The mandate system, commercially speaking, is a death 
blow for the U. S. A. From the economic standpoint the 
mandate business is absolutely ruinous to all, except to the 

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Allies. From a political point of view the mandate system 
gives autocratic authority to the Allies over sixteen millions 
of people. That is not all. The mandates, or plainly speak- 
ing, the colonial plunder by the Allies, is bound to increase 
the armies and navies of most nations. It is an old estab- 
lished fact that the greater is the colonial empire, the greater 
the army and the larger the navy of that particular nation. 
The greater the army and the larger the navy, the keener 
will be the rivalry aroused in this or that line. And then 
follow the war or wars ! In that way the oppressed change 
their masters, the colonial system continues and imperialism 
goes on. The colonial system is the mother of modern wars. 
Therefore, those who are against wars, also should be against 
the colonial system. The colonial system will come to an end 
some day. In the meanwhile there is no reason why the Al- 
lies should grab the German colonies without any payment 
or some kind of return to Germany. 

If Germany must pay for the damage caused by the war, 
then it is only a matter of common justice that the Allies 
should pay to Germany for her colonies. A number of 
American writers have lately suggested that the U. S. A. 
should buy from the British Jamaica for a sum of four to 
five billion dollars, or that the British should hand over 
Jamaica to the U. S. A. in payment of all tlyit England owes, 
which means the same thing. Jamaica has an area of less 
than 4,500 square miles, with a population of 800,000 souls, 
and a foreign trade of 115,000,000 gold marks. Now, if 
Jamaica is worth five billion dollars, then the former German 
colonial empire must be worth at east from thirty to forty 
billion dollars. Furthermore, rum is the leading product 
and export of that island. Since this country went dry, 
Jamaica looks toward a considerable loss. In spite of that 
Jamaica is valued at the sum of five billion dollars. On the 
other hand, the products of the former German colonies are 
such that there will be a greater demand of them than ever 
before. The plain truth is, the moment the Allies distrib- 
uted the German colonies amongst themselves, that very 

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moment they obtained from Germany zvealth and property 
worth almost the amount they want in cash from Germany 
in the name of reparations. 

The size of the former German colonial empire is larger 
than one-third of the total area of the continental U. S. A. 
Its population is larger than the population of the New Eng- 
land States and Pennsylvania combined. In natural re- 
sources and commercial importance, those colonies are worth 
at least ten states of the American Union. The developed 
property of those colonies is worth several hundred million 
dollars, yet not a single word of protest has been uttered in 
the American Congress, nor a word of protest has been 
printed by any of the leading dailies of America. Even the 
religious bodies, which send missionaries to non-Christian 
countries, do not protest against that monstrous grab. Some 
day America will awake, then her merchants and manufac- 
turers will denounce the Allies, but that will not help to re- 
store the cause of justice, nor will it lessen the suffering of 
the German children. The world must be awakened to its 
duty to compel the Allies to return those colonies to Ger- 
many, or else the Allies must be induced to pay Germany in 
cash the value of her lost colonies. At least in justice all 
the Allies must reduce considerably the sum of money which 
they hope to get from Germany as reparation. America has 
helped the Allies to win the war, but who will suppose that 
America will allow the Allies to help themselves to plunder 
Germany, or any other nation ? In the interest of a genuine 
era of justice and good feeling, let the United States Con- 
gress investigate the causes as to why the Allies are not 
morally bound to pay Germany for the loss she has suffered 
in the name of mandates. 



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Reparations 



By putting the word mandates, instead of annexations, 
the Allies took all the former German colonies and at the 
same time they made the world believe that the Allies have 
taken nothing from Germany. Now, that the world believes 
that Germany has lost nothing, Germany must pay unheard 
sums of money in the form of reparations. The U. S. 
A. returned the Boxer indemnity to China to promote edu- 
cation and enlightenment in that country. That was an 
act of grand magnanimity. The American army and navy 
drove Spain out of Asia, then, instead of making Spain pay 
the cost of that war, America herself paid a large sum to 
Spain. By that act the U. S. A. showed the greatness and 
depth of her humanity. Lately Uncle Sam gave a check of 
twenty-five million dollars to the Republic of Colombia, 
though the U. S. A. was in no way obliged to pay a cent. 
When the Allies insist on a huge payment from Germany as 
reparation, and a heavy duty on all German made goods en- 
tering the Allied and other countries, then the Allies reveal 
themselves as most cunning, dishonest, greedy and deter- 
mined to ruin Germany, and keep the Germans in economic 
slavery and political bondage until the end of commercial- 
ism and imperialism. 

The non-Christian world has been oppressed for a long 
time by the imperialists of Europe, who call themselves 
Christians. The brown, the yellow and the black races have 
lost their faith in European Christianity and justice for the 
simple reason that imperialistic Europe is neither Christian, 
nor a believer in justice. The people of Asia are well aware 
of the fact that most of the missionaries who come from 
imperialistic Europe are first, imperialists, then patriotic, 
and then a few percent Christian. Even the German mis- 
sionaries, and especially those of the Leipzig Mission, loved 
the English to such an extent that they, too, joined in Brit- 
ish propaganda in Europe against Asia. Now those mis- 
sionaries must be more than happy to welcome the tyranny 
of their brother Christians and to feel the blessings of Euro- 

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pean civilization and justice as practiced by the imperialists 
of Europe in their dealings with republican Germany. The 
imperialists of Europe are nothing else but a band of ban- 
dits. They escaped the punishment because they called 
themselves Christians, civilized and even democratic. 
Six questions are involved in reparations, namely : 

1) The Allies want to take large sums of money from 
Germany in the name of reparations and use that 
money to strengthen their world-wide empires. In 
this case "the Allies" means England and France. 

2) England wants a weak Germany, weak in industry, 
weak in commerce and weak in finance. 

3) France wants an impotent Germany in national 
strength. 

4) A weak Germany means that there shall be no Ger- 
man-Russian alliance. 

5) A weak Germany, further, means an economic and 
political dictatorship all over Europe. 

6) If the Allies force Germany to pay huge sums of 
money as reparations, then it will be a double victory 
for England, and a tremendous loss to the U. S. A. 

What is meant by a double victory for England is this : 
If Germany is weak and poor, then she will buy the raw ma- 
terials from the British Empire, thereby the U. S. A. will 
lose a great market for her raw materials. Then again, if 
Germany is poor and weak, then the U.S. A. will lose her 
great markets in Central Europe, in other words, to the ex- 
tent that Germany is weaker it has less buying power and 
to that extent the American producer will sell less. To the 
extent that German industries are heavily taxed, to that ex- 
tent it becomes easier for England to hold Europe in her 
commercial grip. 

The reparation terms are ruinous to Germany. Germany 
can never pay what the Allies want of her. Not that Ger- 
many will not, bat Germany cannot. That is an economic 
truth. In their demands the Allies have shown that justice, 
chivalry and mercy are buried. The unreasonable demands 
of the Allies will increase radicalism in all parts of the 

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world. The forces of unrest and unemployment will become 
stronger, both in and outside of the Allied world. The Al- 
lies will lose many of their former friends. The nations 
which were anti-German will soon be anti-Allies ; the peace- 
loving, the freedom-loving and the justice-loving people of 
all nations will sympathize with Germany and despise the Al- 
lies. The new forces of internationalism in Europe, the 
mighty Nationalist parties of India, Ireland and Egypt, the 
ever-increasing anti-British movement in America, and at 
least ten other organizations, some of which are organized 
in all countries, gaining daily in strength ; all these will 
be on the side of Germany and against the Allies. There- 
fore, let the Allies remember that half a loaf is better than 
no bread at all. When the Allies took the German colonies, 
they, the Allies, received from Germany more than half a 
loaf. The World War has shaken all the old established 
institutions in Europe and the European ruled world. Re- 
ligions have lost their hold on people, the old political parties 
are shattered, autocracy is meeting its doom, orthodox na- 
tionalism is dying fast, anti-militarism is growing within 
the ranks of the militarists, the poverty of the poor is grow- 
ing worse everywhere, the fight between Capital and Labor 
has begun in all countries, and on all continents in the most 
gloomy fashion. Everywhere expenses have increased, and the 
purchasing power has gone down. New powers have thrown 
a challenge at the old powers for the world trade supremacy. 
These, and many other factors the Allies must take into 
consideration if sanity has not left them. Allies, don't try 
to swallow that which will choke you to death ! The Allies 
are imperialists, most of them have colonies and all of them 
love empires, pow r er and money. It is in their interest to 
further the continuance of the present economic, political 
and social systems. A strong and healthy Germany means 
the continuance of the capitalistic world, and weak and 
poor Germany will help to bring sooner the downfall of all 
that is dear to the hearts of the Allies. The heavier the 
reparation the sooner will be the doom of imperialism. 
When the Allies doom Germany, they doom themselves. 
The fate of the present existing system depends on the Al- 
lies. 

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The U. S. A. in Trap 

The Allies urged the U. S. A. to enter the war for Free- 
dom, Democracy and supposedly at the same time, for her 
own safety. When the U. S. A. entered the war, then the 
Allies wanted help, in men, money and munitions. America 
helped the Allies on a grand scale, but at the Peace Confer- 
ence, and in making the treaty or treaties, the U. S. A. was 
kept at a distance in order that the voice of justice would 
not be heard. The catch phrases of American statesmen 
during the war are now used by the Allies to turn the whole 
world against America. The same nations are using the 
war-time idealism of America to the mockery and contempt 
of all. The imperialists of Europe show to the nations of Eu- 
rope and Asia, that the U. S. A. is an aggressive nation. 
Say the imperialists of Europe to the Europeans that the 
U. S. A. interferes too much in purely domestic problems of 
Europe. To the people of Asia, the Europeans warn of 
American invasion of the Orient. They say: "Look here, 
the American Monroe doctrine keeps you out of America, 
the same. America sends thousands of missionaries to your 
dear Asia. Now in what do you believe, the Monroe doc- 
trine, or the missionaries ?" The Europeans go further and 
tell the Orientals that if the U. S. A. is a Christian nation, 
then ''how could she deny you the hand of brotherhood here 
on earth.' 1 "On the other hand, if she does not treat your 
countries as sister nations, then don't you think that it is 
time for you to open your eyes and not look up to America?" 
The imperialists of Europe point out to the people of Asia 
the size of American colonies on that continent as an ex- 
ample of American aggression. 

To the people of America the same European imperial- 
ists show that Asia is a great danger to America. Say the 
cunning European imperialists to America : "Go ahead, 
increase your navy and army to meet the Asiatic danger, 
but don't build too big a navy and don't maintain a power- 
ful army, so that we, the Europeans, may continue to fool 
you and the rest of the world." America does not want the 

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radicals of Europe to enter this country. Say the fox-like 
Europeans to those radicals: "You see, you can talk and 
write what you please in your countries, still you love your 
country less, and you think so much of America, but you 
will never be able to do in America what you are doing 
here. Therefore, use your friends who are there, and 
through them make that country as radical as you can. But 
while you are in your country, work for the good of your 
country." In this way the imperialists of Europe are ex- 
ploiting every human weakness to the detriment of America. 

Lately in one of the leading clubs of Chicago, openly an 
admirer of England, but secretly a British propagandist, 
told his hearers that in Northern India alone, England has 
an army of 400,000 men. And then the same propagandist 
asked his hearers to use their influence in the cause of Eng- 
lish-speaking democracy and do all in their power to op- 
pose freedom in India in the name of English-speaking de- 
mocracy. In India the Indians are told abominable false- 
hoods as to the treatment of the colored people at the hands 
of Americans. The British have warned the people 
of India, more than once, of American injustice and 
hypocrisy towards the Orientals in general and the Hin- 
doos in particular. At the same time England makes it 
almost impossible for the Indian merchants, particularly the 
Indian buyers and students to come to this country. In 
America, itself, in the university circles, the British propa- 
ganda is at work against the interests of the Indian stu- 
dents. Any Indian, who is not in favor of everything the 
English do in India, that Indian is at once called anti-Ameri- 
can. In India, when an Indian comes out in favor of Amer- 
ican institutions, and especially her educational system, then 
that Indian is marked, watched and then is made to suffer. 
The European imperialism is like a double-mouthed poison- 
ous snake. 

The Allies say to America that they have no money, 
therefore they cannot pay now, and perhaps can never pay. 
It is just like the Allies. It is like "I told you so." The 

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same Allies have powerful standing armies, Poland alone 
has an army of 600,000 men, England has over 400,000 more 
men under arms in Asia than in the year 1914. The English 
explanation for that is typically British. The English say : 
"The League of Nations and the Mandates have increased 
the British responsibilities. " . . . Everyone of the European 
nations which have borrowed money from America, has 
gone army mad. Even the second rate and third rate Euro- 
pean borrowers of American money have powerful armies. 
The Allies have money to maintain armies, but have no food 
for the children : "Who said that Europe is Christian and 
civilized?" 

The Allies say to America they have no money to pay 
their American debts, still the same Allies have money to 
organize powerful trusts, form combinations and monopo- 
lies in order to keep off the U. S. A. from the world trade. 
vSome of those Allies are preparing to fight the U. S. A. 
whenever America wants a fight. The Allies have croco- 
dile tears in their eyes whenever they talk of payment, but 
they are going in wolf and tiger-like fashion to meet Amer- 
ica. The Allies say to America that they are willing to pay 
all of their debts, not in cash, but in goods. That is, Amer- 
ica should buy goods in payment for money, but the same 
Allies want gold marks as reparation and put heavy duty on 
German exports. The Allies say that cheap, German-made 
goods will ruin the industries of the Allies' countries, and 
the same Allies want America to take cheap Allies' goods as 
payment of their debts to America. The Allies' logic is so 
subtle that only the anti-Americans agree with it thoroughly 
to the detriment of their country. In the meanwhile, the 
Allies are doing their best to disorganize the American in- 
dustries through deadly propaganda, here in America, and 
in foreign countries the same Allies are killing the Ameri- 
can trade in the most infamous way. The Allies are using 
every known mean trick to make the world anti- American. 
The Allies have laid a trap for the U. S. A. Before it is 
too late, let Congress act! 

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Imperialistic Europe looks upon the U. S. A. as a com- 
mercial and political rival of first magnitude ; but that is not 
the case with Asia. The Orient looks upon the U. S. A. as 
the only true Western friend. Liberalism in the Orient 
means pro-Americanism, all conservative, reactionary forces 
and men in Asia are somewhat pro-European. The liberal 
leaders, the progressive business men, and nearly all the 
students in Asia are largely pro-American. The pro-Euro- 
pean Asiatics are few and their number decreases daily. On 
the other hand, the pro-American Asiatics are many and 
their number increases daily. The future leaders of Asia 
are at present in American universities and colleges. There 
are 5,000 of them. And soon their number will be doubled. 
The millions of followers of Mr. M. K. Gandhi and Dr. ,R. 
Tagore are pro-American. But, those pro-American In- 
dians are presented to the American Press and public as 
anti-American. The Indian National Congress only lately 
advised its adherents to buy American goods; that was in- 
deed an event of great importance to American business 
men ; but not a single word was printed about it in the daily 
press of the U. S. A. On the contrary, a few days later 
Americans were informed that there is no market whatso- 
ever in India for American goods. That is the way the so- 
called European friends of America mislead the American 
people. There are a number of facts of similar nature 
which could be brought to the attention of the U. S. Con- 
gress and the State Department at Washington, D. C. 

The imperialistic nations of Europe spend millions of 
dollars on propaganda work in foreign countries to the det- 
riment of the U. S. A. But America is not imperialistic, 
and the U. S. A. is the least cunning and the least aggressive 
of all the nations of the earth ; therefore it was easy for the 
imperialists to get the U. S. A, in trap. The sooner she 
gets out of it, the better for her. 



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The U. S. A. and the World Peace 

The founders of religions are universally respected. The 
admirers of philosophers of all ages and all countries are to 
be found everywhere ; and even though the works of famous 
artists are not seen by all, their names have a place in all 
hearts wherever art is loved. Even the names of some of 
the great inventors are highly esteemed in nearly all coun- 
tries and among the people of all walks of life; but so far 
not a single statesman of any country has achieved univer- 
sal fame, also not a single military or naval hero of one coun- 
try has received generous homage at the hands of men and 
women of the neighboring countries. Of all the isms the 
heroism seems to be the most short lived and of all the great 
and famous men the military and naval heroes are those who 
do not receive a universal recognition. General G. Wash- 
ington has become the divine hero of India, Ireland and 
Egypt. Simon Bolivar is another hero whose fame is only 
next to that of President Washington. Asia and Europe 
combined have perhaps three or four heroes of high stand- 
ing; but if it comes straight down to the test, then one dis- 
covers that as a rule 99 percent of the "heroes" were noth- 
ing but cold blooded murderers and the worst kind of mili- 
tary dictators the world has ever seen. 

Patriotism of an idealist is most wholesome ; it is never, 
never destructive but all around constructive. Also the pa- 
triotism of a scientist is universally healthy ; once in a while 
the patriotism of a statesman is sound, too, but the patriot- 
ism of a militarist is the most dangerous and despotic, it has 
killed many hundred millions of people and ruined several 
hundred empries. The patriotism of the militarists is op- 
posed to liberty ; their highest dream is military dictatorship. 
Their patriotism aims always at conquest and the fruit of 
conquest is devastation of land, homes and property, which 
means agony and death of countless people. Washington and 
Bolivar fought successfully for the cause of freedom, there- 
fore the freedom-loving world pays them great homage. 
But the Mongolian, Tartar and European conquerors are 

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held in contempt by all because they were pityless brutes, 
typifying the militarism of their days. Asia and Africa are 
in the. hands of foreign militarists. Those two continents 
can only be freed from militaristic rule after Europe itself 
is freed therefrom. The world over militarism is growing 
more and more unpopular and yet, today the standing armies 
of the leading nations are far more powerful than six years 
ago. Nearly all the governments are either in the hands of 
the military cliques or in the still more terrible hands of the 
ammunition trusts of their respective countries. At pres- 
ent the second rate nations of Europe have just as strong 
armies — if not stronger — than the armies, the leading 
European nations used to have just before the outbreak of 
the World War. In former years perhaps militarism was 
a necessity, but today the militarism in Asia and Europe is 
kept by choice by the imperialistic governments of imperial 
istic Europe. Already militarism has stopped the wheels of 
industries, reduced greatly the agricultural products ; leaving 
behind its trail poverty, unenployment, misery, and all the 
human sufferings due to misery and privation. It is the 
militarism that has created several gigantic armies where the 
unemployment and misery breeds and ferments discontent, 
also armies of hungry, even starving children, destitute 
women and suffering men. With the exception of Japan, 
all the military and naval powers are Christians, all of whom 
believe in "home and foreign missions." Is that the reason 
why there are so many peace lovers outside the Church and 
so many war mongers inside? 

The cunning statesmen and foxy diplomats of imperialis- 
tic Europe know perfectly well that the U. S. A. is in a po- 
sition to disarm Europe and the rest of the world. The Al- 
lies owe large sums of money to the U. S., if the Allies are 
compelled to pay their American debts, then the Allies will 
be forced to disarm or at least to decrease considerably their 
military and naval expenditures. If imperialistic Europe 
disarms, then automatically the Monroe Doctrine becomes 
effective on all continents. The militaristic masters of Eu- 
rope fully realize that, if Europe is disarmed, then imperial- 

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ism and political dictatorship will exist no longer. There is 
only one way to escape disarmament and that is to get the 
U. S. A. on the side of the imperialistic Allies — as long as it 
answers the purpose of the Allied powers. As long as 
America keeps aloof from this or that or another "Council" 
the U. S. A. is in a position to enforce disarmament, but, if 
America joins in one or more of the present councils, Amer- 
ica becomes automatically identified with the living and lead- 
ing spirit of imperialism — of the Allies. On one hand the 
Allies do not intend to pay their American debts ; on the 
other hand, they do not want America to free the world 
from armament. That is the reason why the Allies do their 
best to drag the U. S. into the European affairs and at the 
same time they take good care to put against each other the 
two non-European powers, namely, the U. S. A. and Japan,. 

More than half the population of the world is disarmed. 
Those who have no arms were disarmed by their unchris- 
tian Christian masters. The non-Christians form the great 
majority of the inhabitants of this earth. They possess no 
arms. The Christians are a minority. And that Christian 
minority rules the world with arms in hand. By the way, 
India has a Christian government and she is ruled by three 
English Jews, though not more than two per cent of the total 
population of that country is Christian and Jewish. The na- 
tions of the world pass laws to decrease the crimes. Those 
nations have courts and jails to punish the criminals. There 
are even cities and nations, where the sale of arms is for- 
bidden. In those cities and countries those who sell and 
buy arms are punished. But those who manufacture arms 
are the pillars of churches, and the same manufacturers are 
in control of the leading Christian governments. If the men 
who sell and buy arms are sent to jail, as it happens in 
many countries, then why are the manufacturers of arms 
free and such influential personages? 

There is a health department in nearly every city and in 
most towns of the leading nations ; the health department is 
not only to cure disease and insure health, but it exists to 
prevent (he appearance of new diseases. If it pays to keep 

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a health department in the cities and towns, then it will pay 
five thousand times more to have a department of disarma- 
ment in every government. American generosity is feed- 
ing millions of European children whose parents were war 
victims. If those children are fed in order to be cannon- 
food during the future wars, then rather let those children 
die now. But if they are to reach manhood then encour- 
age them to be healthy and happy citizens of their respective 
countries, until a natural death removes them from their 
dear ones. As long as the cities and towns maintain fire de- 
partments, to prevent the destruction of life and property, 
that long each and every government should have a depart- 
ment of disarmament to insure the safety of its citizens from 
the flames of wars. 

Asia is the cradle of most races and the mother of 
all the religions. Europe gave to the world an ocean of 
knowledge and a great treasure in literature. Millions of 
foreigners have found a heaven on earth under the loving 
protection of Uncle Sam. Asia suffers and starves in order 
to feed the armament-kept governments of imperialistic 
Europe. Most Europeans are tired of their militaristic and 
imperialistic governments. Within the last 50 or 60 years 
the U. S. A. has prevented at least six wars in Central and 
South America. Only just lately the U. S. A. prevented a 
war between the Republics of Panama and Costa Rica. 
Those are great achievements of America. If America has 
been able to prevent so many wars in the past, why could 
she not prevent the future wars as well? The best way to 
prevent war or wars is to disarm Europe ; and then to make 
it impossible to manufacture all means of destruction. Im- 
perialistic militarism is the greatest cancer the world has 
ever known. The only radical cure for this deadly disease 
is disarmament. The European armament is largely respon- 
sible for the existence of ignorance, poverty, and pest in 
European ruled Asia and Africa. Armament and its twin- 
sisters, the militarism and sea-power-ism, are eating the 
bodies of countless millions of men and women in Europe, 
and that same cancer is now sucking the very life-blood of 

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the children of the same Europeans who have fostered 
armament, militarism and sea-power-ism to the detriment of 
the non-European countries for centuries. 

American prestige is great. She has accumulated tre- 
mendous moral force. The entire suffering humanity and 
all wisdom and peace-loving men and women of all nations 
and all races have their eyes on America. America has the 
power to free the entire Humanity from the crushing yoke 
of militarism. This is the noblest privilege of America, to 
take Humanity out of the bondage of militarism and lead it 
into the light of freedom. This is the greatest opportunity 
of America to remove the heavy rock of armament under 
which fourteen hundred millions of people are being crushed 
to death. The voice of America can abolish war. America 
has within her power to give lasting peace, that is her God- 
given mission. Will she fullfil it? 



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